North American Field Evaluation Services

If you’re faced with unique circumstances or challenges that make it impractical, or even impossible for you to undergo the regular certification process, a field evaluation may be the ideal solution to get your product to market. A field evaluation is a service that allows a qualified certification expert to assess your uncertified product against required safety and other applicable standards and codes. These are also known as special inspections in Canada.

CSA Group has over 20 years of experience in field evaluation and special inspection services. Our one-time evaluation service is quick, and may help you get your products into North America when you need approval from local Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ), or other regulators.

Top reasons to choose CSA Group for your North American field evaluation and special inspection needs:

• Rely on a leader in North America: CSA Group is a certification leader in Canada and the U.S., with the expertise and technical knowledge of North American product requirements to facilitate speedy evaluations

• Simplify with a one-stop provider: We can provide this service for all your electrical, gas, and mechanical equipment, including industrial control panels, automated manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, luminaires, switchboards, robotics, heating and cooling, commercial food service, distributed generation, energy storage systems, PV, and microgrid systems

• Test to key standards and codes:  We test to SPE-1000 (Canadian Model Code for the Field Evaluation of Electrical Equipment) and SPE-3000 (Model Code for the Field Evaluation of Medical Electrical Equipment and Systems), CSA B149.3 (Field Approval of Gas Fired Appliances), NFPA 791
  (Recommended Practice and Procedures for Unlabeled Electrical Equipment Evaluation) UL 508 (Standard for Safety-Industrial Control Equipment) UL 508A (Standard for Safety-Industrial Control Panels)